Soon,
a shadowy hand appears from behind the darkened bedroom door holding
a silencer, and six shots are fired into the bundle of pillows and
sheets. The gun hand belongs to Professor Dent. Bond forces Dent
to drop his gun and while they talk, Dent tries to distract Bond
while edging his gun closer and closer on the floor rug. When Dent
finally retrieves and seizes his pistol, he fires it at Bond, but
it only clicks empty. Bond points his own Walther PPK gun at Dent
and menaces him with a classic line, shooting him down in cold blood,
and then blowing on the end of the gun's barrel:

That's a Smith and Wesson. And you've had your six.

Arriving two hours late at the Kingston Harbor, Bond
sets off at night with Quarrel and Leiter to Crab Key Island, to
investigate the island where Strangways had collected radioactive
rock samples. With a plan to rejoin Leiter in a motorboat in about
twelve hours, Quarrel and Bond take off in a sailing/rowboat, arriving
in the middle of the night. They hide their boat and then spend the
remaining early morning hours resting in the jungle until the sun
rises.

In the film's most unforgettable sequence, Bond awakens
to the sound of a girl's voice singing "Underneath the Mango
Tree." And then on the beach rising Venus-like from the water
with giant seashells, Bond has his first view of Honey Ryder (Ursula
Andress), an innocent, voluptuous island girl/diver wearing a sexy,
white bikini and hunting knife. [Halle Berry would recreate this
famous scene as Jinx Johnson in a bright orange bikini in the Bond
film, Die Another Day (2002).] His own appearance from the
undergrowth startles her:

Honey: Who's that?
Bond: It's all right. I'm not supposed to be here either. I take
it you're not. Are you alone?
Honey: What are you doing here? Looking for shells?
Bond (glibly): No, I'm just looking.
Honey: Stay where you are.
Bond: I promise I won't steal your shells.
Honey: I promise you you won't either. Stay where you are! (She draws
her hunting knife and threatens him)
Bond: I can assure you my intentions are strictly honorable.

Honey appears carefree and unafraid of discovery, often
visiting the island to collect shells: "At first, they used
to try to catch me, but they couldn't. Now, I don't think they bother
anymore." Bond warns that it will be different this time: "Well,
they will this time."

A high-powered motorboat roars along the beach, and
they rush to take cover. It sprays the entire area with machine gun
fire, then leaves after warning to return with dogs. Both Honey and
Quarrel are fearful, especially of the island's dragon: "He
had two great glaring eyes, short tail and pointed wings, and was
breathing fire." Honey's boat is found to be shot full of holes,
making it impossible for her to leave the island without them.

As they make their way across the island, Honey, like
a female Tarzan, guides them and teaches them how to be evasive.
By breathing through reeds from underwater, the three escape capture
and detection by guard dogs. One lone guard with a machine gun is
knifed in the back by Bond, as Honey expresses her horror: "Why?" Bond
replies: "Because I had to". Quarrel discovers the tire
tracks of the "dragon" which haunts Crab Key.

During the day while they hide, Honey tells Bond about
herself. She was the only child of a marine zoologist, who studied
seashells throughout the world (the Philippines, Bali, Hawaii, "just
about anywhere there were shells"). Although her father was
reported drowned at Crab Key, Honey believes that he was "far
too good a diver for that to happen to him." He was probably
murdered by Dr. No and his henchman and she was made an orphan. For
schooling, she has been reading an encyclopedia since childhood: "I
started at A when I was eight and now I've reached T." "I'll
bet I know a lot more things than you do," she boasts.

After her father's death, she stayed on a while in
Kingston, until her kindly benefactor turned on her and she sought
revenge: "I scratched his face, and then..., but he was stronger
than I was...I put a black widow spider underneath his mosquito net.
A female, and they're the worst. It took him a whole week to die." Bond
finds her story unsettling: "Well, it wouldn't do to make a
habit of it."

Later that evening on the beach, they are confronted
by the
"dragon," but Bond tells Quarrel not to worry: "A dragon
that runs on diesel engines. You can forget the spooks, Quarrel." In
a battle with the dragon, an amphibious, diesel-engined swamp vehicle
(disguised as a dragon to scare the locals), Quarrel is burned to death,
incinerated by the flame thrower, as Bond fires vainly at the glaring
headlights of the camouflaged tank. In a hopeless situation on the
sand flats, Bond and Honey surrender and are captured by guards wearing
fire-protective suits. When a hand-cuffed Bond resists after one of
the guards pushes Honey, they are both beaten and bruised.

First, they are taken to Dr. No's radioactive-decontamination
chamber, where they are sprayed with a white foamy substance and
then given a short rub-down with a long-handled broom. When the levels
of radiation are still too high, they are ordered to take off all
their clothes. Bond amusingly attempts to order his own captors about:

Bond: Do the girl first.
Captor: Now look man. We give the orders around here.
Bond: Yeah, that's fine, but do something about this, will ya? (gesturing
toward his handcuffs)

The guards oblige him. They are put naked onto a conveyor
belt through a series of showers, to further reduce the dangerous
radioactive levels on their bodies. Lighted signs before each shower
spray indicate the decreasing level of contamination as they pass
down the conveyor belt. Finally, garbed in light blue towels, they
are ushered into a bank vault-like door set in a rock, where they
are welcomed by two Chinese women dressed in white, Sister Rose (Michele
Mok) and Sister Lily (Yvonne Shima):

Sister Lily: Come in, you poor dears. We simply didn't
know when to expect you. First it was teatime yesterday, and then
dinner and it was only half an hour ago we really knew you were
on your way.
Sister Rose: Cigarette? These are American, there's English, and
there's Turkish...We hope to make your stay as pleasant as possible.
Bond: That's really most kind of you. But for the moment...
Sister Lily: Of course, you'll be wanting to see your room. Breakfast
is already ordered, and then you'll want to sleep. The Dr. left strict
orders. You're not to be disturbed until this evening. He'll be delighted
if you'll join him for dinner.

The two captives are shown their luxurious quarters
(equipped with properly-sized clothing for each of them) by Sister
Lily:

Sister Lily: Don't hesitate to ring if there's anything
else you want. Anything at all.
Bond: Such as two air tickets to London?
Sister Lily (politely ignoring him): I'll leave you two dear people
in peace.

While unknowingly drinking the drugged coffee on the
breakfast tray in their rooms, they realize that they are imprisoned: "Mink
lined, with first-class service." Both of them quickly pass
out from the effects of the coffee. After they have been put into
their beds in an unconscious state for a drugged sleep, the door
slides open - only a pair of white shoes and starchly-pressed white
trousers are seen stepping inside and walking over to Bond's bed.
A plastic, black metallic-like hand reaches down and pulls back the
sheet from under Bond's face. The mysterious figure [of Dr. No] gazes
at his victim for a moment, and then leaves as silently as he approached.

After awakening and recovering, Bond and Honey dress
for dinner and then are led to an elevator which takes them into
the depths of Dr. No's underground lair. They emerge into a decorated
living room a la Captain Nemo, one wall of which is an observation
panel - a large piece of glass through which they see a perfect view
of the undersea world.

The scene of the confrontation between Bond and Dr.
No in his Crab Key Island fortress is a classic one. Bond's thoughts
are interrupted by a voice behind him:

Bond: Artificial light. We could be hundreds of feet
beneath the sea here.
Honey: And look at that. Sea turtles! They do not grow above two
hundred feet.
Dr. No: One million dollars, Mr. Bond. (They turn and see Dr. No
for the first time) You were wondering what it cost.
Bond: As a matter of fact, I was.

Bond's ruthless arch-enemy, Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman)
appears in a plain white Nehru jacket with a pair of shiny black,
plastic hands, the result of a "misfortune." He continues
to describe the aquarium, while Bond persists in provoking him:

Dr. No: A unique feat of engineering if I may say
so. I designed it myself. The glass is convex, ten inches thick,
which accounts for the magnifying effect.
Bond (retorting): Minnow pretending they're whales. Just like you
on this island, Dr. No.
Dr. No (countering): It depends, Mr. Bond, on which side the glass
you are.

Bond is offered a drink on a tray by a servant - a
famous second instance of Bond's particular drink preference:

During dinner, Dr. No explains his background when
he was in the Tong Society (a Chinese version of the Mafia), with
a cold, calculating, and precise manner:

Dr. No: I was the unwanted child of a German missionary
and a Chinese girl of good family. Yet I became treasurer of the
most powerful criminal society in China.
Bond: It's rare for the Tongs to trust anyone who isn't completely
Chinese.
Dr. No: I doubt they should do so again. I escaped to America with
$10 million of their dollars in gold.
Bond: That's how you financed this operation. It was a good idea
to use atomic power. I'm glad to see you can handle it properly...
Dr. No: My work has given me a unique knowledge of radioactivity.
But not without costs, as you see.

Dr. No shows some respect for Bond: "I only gratify
your curiosity because you're the one man I met capable of appreciating
what I've done. And keeping it to himself." When Dr. No orders
Honey to be dragged from the room ("I'm sure the guards will
amuse her,") Bond tries to help her by grabbing a bottle as
a weapon, but he is restrained by a guard:

Dr. No: That's a Dom Perignon '55. It would be a
pity to break it.
Bond: I prefer the '53 myself.

Bond continues to provoke Dr. No by referring to his
evil, blackmailing plan for world domination by deflecting and altering
the flight paths of Cape Canaveral's nuclear rocket launches towards
the US itself:

Does the toppling of American missiles really compensate
for having no hands?

Dr. No describes how he was rejected by both Eastern
and Western countries and their scientific communities, and is now
a leading agent for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (a criminal organization acronym):

Dr. No: East. West. Just points of the compass. Each
as stupid as the other. I'm a member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E....Special
Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion.
The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains
in the world.
Bond: Correction. Criminal brains.
Dr. No: A successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to
be.
Bond: Why become criminal? I'm sure the West would welcome a scientist
of your calibre.
Dr. No: The Americans are fools. I offered my services. They refused.
So did the East. Now they can both pay for their mistake.
Bond: World domination. Same old dream. Our asylums are full of people
who think they're Napoleon or God.
Dr. No: You persist in trying to provoke me, Mr. Bond. I could have
had you killed in the swamp.
Bond: And why didn't you?
Dr. No: I thought you less stupid. Usually when a man gets in my
way (he picks up a gold ornament from the table and crushes it with
his metal hand), but you are different. You cost me time, money,
effort. You damage my organization and my pride. I was curious to
see what kind of a man you were. I thought there might even be a
place for you with SPECTRE.
Bond: Well, I'm flattered. I'd prefer the Revenge Department. Of
course, my first job would be finding the man who killed Strangways
and Quarrel.
Dr. No: Unfortunately, I misjudged you. You are just a stupid policeman
whose luck has run out.

After Bond refuses to work for SPECTRE and tension
has increased to intolerable levels between them, Dr. No is not amused
by Bond and asserts:

I never fail, Mr. Bond.

He orders his guard to "soften him up. I haven't
finished with him yet," and then leaves for the control room
to prepare for another
"toppling" of a US rocket guidance system with a nuclear-powered
radio beam.

Bond regains consciousness in a smaller, less-luxurious
prison cell, where he wakes up on a bunk bed. After climbing up to
a small electrified ventilation grill at the top of one wall, he
is thrown backwards when shocked. But he tries again - this time
using his shoe to knock out the grill. He successfully escapes his
jail cell by crawling through the grill into the super-heated ventilation
shaft of the conditioning system.

In the shaft, Bond is hit by a flood of water projected
through the narrow tunnel, and barely survives being drowned. He
makes his way to another ventilation grill, kicks it out, drops down
into another room, and there overpowers one of Dr. No's technicians.
With the disguise of the man's radiation suit, Bond makes his way
into Dr. No's laboratory control room, where an atomic reactor is
shielded in a pool of water.

The countdown toward the Cape Canaveral rocket launch
has begun, viewed on TV screens in the control room. Bond is assigned
to the metal catwalk above the reactor, where he makes an attempt
to destroy the nuclear reactor and abort Dr. No's sabotage of the
launch. He turns a wheel on the reactor's control panel, sending
the radiation indicator up beyond the danger level to a point of
no-return. Flashing signs and lights indicate serious damage. The
reactor attendant notices what has happened and tries to stop Bond,
but is knocked from the catwalk.

Red "Abandon Area" lights flash as the staff
scurries and flees from the control room. The arch-villain Dr. No
runs in a mechanically-stiff stride toward Bond on the catwalk, and
ends up battling him on the descending gantry which is moving down
into the furiously boiling pool of water containing the reactor.

In the exciting fight to the finish in mortal hand-to-hand
combat over the reactor pool, Bond manages to climb up to safety,
but as Dr. No desperately clutches at the steel supports of the platform,
his metallic, artificial hands cannot get a grip on the steel legs
of the sinking gantry. He is submerged into the bubbling water of
the reactor, sinking into the steaming, boiling mixture. Meanwhile,
the US rocket is successfully launched, but the entire island complex
approaches toward a major meltdown.

Rushing from the deserted control room, Bond searches
for Honey, and discovers her in a room where she is chained hand
and foot to a slanted, concrete floor, threatened by water rushing
at her from a sluice gate. Bond cuts her free and they both race
toward a motorboat. As they escape out into the water, the reactor
reaches critical mass, and Dr. No's complex is blown to pieces in
a shattering explosion.

Their motorboat drifts aimlessly after running out
of fuel: "Well," says castaway Bond to Honey, "we can swim or,
uh...come here." With a detachment of Marines on a boat, Felix
Leiter approaches to rescue Bond, and they are given a tow. During
a passionate kiss and embrace, Bond decides he doesn't want to be rescued,
and he releases the tow line - they are adrift once again.